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S JASMINUM ‘grandiflorum. 
Spanish or catalonian Jasmine. 
EM DIANDRIA MONGGYNILA. 
JASMINUM. Supra vol. 1. fol. 1. 
. | Dit. foliis compositis. 7 i 
J. grandiflorum, foliis pinnatis: foliolis obtusiusculis, gemmis horizontes 
: libus. Hort. Kew. 1. 30. 
J. grandiflorum. Linn. sp. pl. 1.9. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 4. Meerb. 
- ic. t 1. Desfont. fl. atl. 1. 6. Brotero fl. lusit. 1.12. Quer ff. 
. espan. 5. 260. Ruiz y Pavon fl.perwo. 1.6. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 41. 
ahl enum. Y, 34. Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 1. 18. 
Jasminum officinale, £. Gouan hort. 5. ; 
J. hispanicum. flore majore externê rubente. Cat. pl. hort. lond. t. 7, 
` Merian surinam. (. 46. Knorr thes. 1. t. T. 1. 
J. candiflorum majus. Ger. emac: 892. f.9. Tabern. ic. 885, 
J.catalonicum. Park. parad. 406. . 
Gelseminum catalonicum. Cam. epit. 37. 
Chamegelseminum grandiflorum peramenum. Lob. hist. 443. 
Pitsjegam-Mulla. Rheede mal. 6. 91. t. 52. 
Arbuscula erecta, glabra, 3-4-pedalis, non scandens, ramosa; rami divisi, 
graciles, virentes, foliosi, per duo latera exarati sulco. Folia decussato-distan» 
Ha, patentissima, petiolata, trijuga cum impari, lavia ; foliolis ovatis, laterum 
«equalibus subsessilibus obtusis, “nis duplo majori, longè acuminato. Pedun? 
culi terminales lateralesgue, axillares, tricholomo-triflori v. modó ultra; pes 
dicelli extimi suffulti bracted modo foliaceo-amplá modô minutá. Cal. viridis, 
dentibus setaceis. Cor. sesguiuncialis, alba, extern? purpureo-suffusa ; tubus 
erectus, angustà cylindricus, X partes unciæ longus; lacinie 5, explanata, 
elliptic, ‘obi E 
A species the nearest of any to the common Jasmine 
(Jasminum officinale;) but differs from that in having an 
upright subarbbreous stem, with divergent woody branches 
which do not reguire to be supported, and never acguire any 
thing near the length these do in the other, the entire plant 
seldom exceeding four feet; in having horizontal, not 
upright buds, leaves-of a brighter green, obtuse closer lateral 
leaflets, the one at the end much larger acuminate and 
most timés decursively confluent with the two next; in hav; 
ing a larger, more substantial, and more exquisitely fragrant 
bloom, generally suffused withrcrimson on the outside. 
*^: A native of the East Tidies; and if not aborigimal, eer- 
tainly naturalized in the island of Tobago, where the woods, 
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